{"id":103945,"date":"2024-12-14T17:18:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T16:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/?p=103945"},"modified":"2024-12-21T14:44:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T13:44:01","slug":"syria-is-free-but-for-how-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/en\/franz-alt-en\/comments-interviews\/syria-is-free-but-for-how-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria is free \u2013 but for how long?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Happy people, dancing youths, tears of joy: Syria is free! The tyrant has been overthrown. Moscow is granting asylum to the long-standing Syrian dictator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The images are reminiscent of the scenes in Germany 35 years ago, in the autumn of 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and the citizens of the GDR celebrated their new freedom. Back then, Erich Honecker also found shelter in Moscow. The strong and terrible men behind both dictators sat and sit in Moscow then as now \u2013 how telling. Erich Honecker back then and Bashar al-Assad today were once powerful, they had hundreds of thousands of soldiers, tanks and weapons at their disposal. But they had a miserable exit. Dictators usually flee into their own insignificance. What a \u2018miserable exit\u2019! (TAZ, 11 December 2025<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Arab leaders fared similarly, for example Saddam Hussein in Iraq or Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. And most dictators in history fared similarly. How ridiculous and \u2018pathetic\u2019 the \u2018power of the powerful\u2019 can be!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is important for the liberated people is their new freedom.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In Germany 35 years ago and in Syria now, millions of people have overcome their fear of the dictator and therefore became free. They knew and know: \u2018We are the people.\u2019 And then they were so free. Both freedoms were achieved without violence. The real lesson of these two non-violent revolutions: Overcoming fear is the condition for freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freedom is anchored in the soul of every human being.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

All religious and spiritual leaders have recommended and virtually drummed into their students and followers: \u2018Don’t be afraid!\u2019 The most frequently used word of Jesus in the Bible to his followers is \u2018Don’t be afraid!\u2019 The great judge of character and depth psychologist Carl Gustav Jung knew: \u2018I only know one superpower on this planet: that is the human soul.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People who understand this connection between freedom and the soul can overcome fear and even overthrow dictators. They free themselves from the bondage of wretched tyrants and cowardly mass murderers. Unfortunately, however, history \u2013 especially the more recent history of Arabia \u2013 shows that freedom is often short-lived. And that one dictatorship follows another. This danger is also present in Syria today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Syrian people will only be truly free if they can safeguard their new freedom permanently and sustainably. The current liberators in Syria are Islamists, not democrats. However, the fact that they succeeded in overthrowing Assad without bloodshed and without violence, and that in the first days of their new-found power they are willing to engage in dialogue with each other and with the old government, is a democratic sign of hope for the future of the approximately 25 million people in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n

Source<\/h5>\r\n\n\n\n

Franz Alt 2024<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Translated with\u00a0www.DeepL.com\/Translator<\/a><\/p>\n

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